This book is the first full-length study available in English to trace the extraordinary history of the Italian Northern Leagues during the 1980s and 1990s. At a time when the postwar First Republic entered a crisis amid corruption scandals, the Leagues acted as one of the main protest actors and grew at an unprecedented rate. Drawing on electoral... more...

The current European consensus on competition in communications is based on a
shared vision of contemporary market and technological developments. Roughly
stated, the position, outlined in the 1994 Bangemann Report and the 1997 European
Green Paper on Convergence (Marsden and Verhulst 1999, Blackman, 1998), claims the
following:
B Due to the ??end... more...

Developments in information technology and the internet are taking place at an almost bewildering pace. Such improvements, however, are believed to present opportunities for improving the responsiveness and accountability of political institutions and enhancing citizen participation. In Cyberdemocracy the theoretical arguments for and against "electronic... more...

Can the Internet regulate itself? Faced with a range of 'harms' and conflicts associated with the new media ? from gambling to pornography ? many governments have resisted the temptation to regulate, opting instead to encourage media providers to develop codes of conduct and technical measures to regulate themselves. Codifying Cyberspace looks... more...